Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 34
They pulled him off the stove, and set him to work fiddling.
Who acts: people · What happens: pull, set, work, fiddle · To what, where: FIDDLER, stove
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pulled | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 stove | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stove | det |
| 6 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pulled | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 work | mark |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 set | advcl |
| 13 | fiddling | fiddle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 work | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | people | FIDDLER | the stove | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme off stove=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | people not said here | FIDDLER | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result | ||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fiddle | gerund | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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